Terry Bozzio Breaks Down "5 Equals 7" by Efrain Toro

Pretty normal in Afro Cuban rythms...

Just occupied...like narrating by translating someone giving diction. As the base players role hovers while he plays in continuum just a little less. It creates a kind of offered balance that's also imbalanced because it's active. Multicycle offerings from multiple organisms in the environment of the set or kit.
Soundscape design and awareness is important. The wind should be able to play your songs...you just have to BE the creator and "god" of the universes forces. Recognize boundaries and transcend them and live in the resonant world. That's magnetism. That's force. And that's whats in the dimension of your kit. At its surface and in it's depth as area.
It's like a castle that's flickering in and out of the spectrum of light that shows red and blue. !!?? I mean that it is conceptually an object used to manifest resonant environment to simulate images of frequency of modulated energy like weather which is what behaves in our universe unseen. Not an illusion. Just force. Magnetism and wind and what engine makes all this hover and float and spin and tumble.
Piano wires..kneel down and look acrossed a field of tilled rows of food for next year's planting and harvesting. Look again and it's waves acrossed a pond removed from water because it's not waters behavior. It's the world and it's logic. How's that work?
Same thing. Youd be surprised whats "not going on" around here.

Certainly drums doesn't make any sense! Hahaha! But when the weatherman stands in front of that green screen he don't see the weather either does he!

Exactly.

That's right, also 9 and 6 playing dotted eighths in 9/8, or 9 and 4, playing eight note triplets inside a half note triplet in 4/4

playing 4 over 3 is basically dotted 8th notes, but playing 3 over 2 are in triplets, so I would say 5 does not equals 7, cause you need to be skippin from doted 8ths to triplets to make it equal

I understand 🤔

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Sometimes I just want to say," shut up and play" !!!!

Yeah,,,,, sorry Morellos version is MUCH better than Efrains—- it just is. Go listen.

[7by8: you have 14 sixteens... and you play 4 4 3 3] you have a very different ratio of bar divisions than [5by8 you have 10 sixteens and you play 3 3 2 2]. Put in other words 3/14=0,214285714 which is very close (but not equal) to 2/10=0.2..... same with the long notes of the ostinato: 4/14= 0,285714286, and 3/10=0.3, very close.... not equals.... but still a nice optical illusion. If you listen carefully Terry's ostinattos.. try to concentrate only on the bass drum... and you wiill tell the difference... is not the same ostinatto.

Mind blowing stuff, and yet it makes perfect sense.

all his cymbals always sound like trash cans , some look like trash cans , tambourines on the kick pedal shafts , yikes ok. enjoy i guess.

I'd like to sell my drums and learn chinese instead...seems easyer to me

Great to see Terry getting back into the swing of things and sharing his master level skills.

Not sure I understand... when I do it, and keep a steady 5, the 4 over the first 3 are slightly slower than the 3 over the last 2, so it is not an even 7. Is it supposed to be?

If I were to subdivide (on paper) each of those 5 beats into 36-tuplets, the first 3 beats would add up to 108. When I divide that by 4, each of those notes get 27 subdivisions. The final two beats add up to 72, which when divided by 3 gives you 24, which make them a tiny bit faster, no?

Thanks for sharing..

I cant stand this dumb counting shit...play by feel....

Terry!! This ritual and tutorial is so rich

Make sense! Studied with Efrain in 93-94. Great teacher.

Just play

I would love to learn more about this stuff, and have watched a bunch of videos like this, but I'm lost after about 5 seconds every time.